Salvador Ramos suffered a vital failure in his scarce 18 years with a drug-addicted mother, school abuse, change of residence and refuge in loneliness
Salvador Ramos on Tuesday morning – late at night in Spain – renounced the anonymity in which he took refuge during his adolescence. At just 18 years old, he reversed that situation and achieved global impact by becoming the author of the second deadliest massacre in the United States in the past decade. He became famous at Robb Elementary School, the primary school in the Texas town of Uvalde, where he studied and where he poured out the hatred he had built up over the years because of the negative episodes he experienced during the early years of his life. formative phase.
He waited until his age of majority to gain the fame that was denied him during his school years. He did it with the weapons he gave himself — a semi-automatic rifle, a pistol and a bulletproof vest — on the same day he came of age, May 16. He acted like a lone gunman, as he was, a young man with hardly any friends who took refuge on digital platforms.
“He was quiet. And they say he liked to play those shooting video games,” Eric said after the crime, wearing a t-shirt, camouflage cap and a gun around his waist. His eldest son studied at the same institute as Ramos. Uvalde present him as a young man with a complicated profile, who was bullied because of his stuttering and because his family was poor.
With shoulder-length brown hair, a pale face and barely an expression, Ramos had a fleeting look, one of those trying to avoid reality and concentrate on their own interior. A former classmate, with whom he still occasionally meets to play Xbox, told CNN television on Wednesday that in the spirit of the massacre’s protagonist, the bullying – often violent – he endured at school when other children joked about it. paid him for the clothes he wore.
These taunts led Ramos to stop attending classes. “He didn’t want to go and just went away little by little. He rarely came,” added the source. After graduating, his classmates gradually lost touch with him, limiting themselves to meeting occasionally to play on the console, his great passion.
Some of them had news of the multiple murderer four days before the attack, though they didn’t know how to interpret it. They received a message containing a pistol and a bag full of ammunition. When asked what he had that arsenal for, Ramos replied that they shouldn’t worry: “I look very different now, you wouldn’t recognize me,” he described himself.
His neighbors class him as a good boy, calm, exaggerated in the opinion of some. Everyone agrees on his strange character, fond of self-harm. He turned his anger on himself. According to Santos Valdez, from his neighborhood, he had recently seen him in a park with his face covered in cuts. First he told her it was a cat, then he told her that he had cut himself with knives.
During the same dates, he had developed aggressive behavior, as he could observe his parents in his childhood. When her relationships with male friends were complicated, with girls they were absent or limited to posts on her social networks – now closed -, all too often inappropriate. One of them was labeled with the weapons with which he committed the crime. He did it around 5:43 a.m. on the day of the massacre. When she showed him her displeasure and asked him about the meaning of that image, he replied that he had “a little secret” that he wanted to tell her. “I’m going. I’ll tell you before 11am,” he added. He did not specify anything further. He limited himself to saying that he was going outside to ‘breathe’.
His house was the second hell of this boy of Latin descent. Because of her mother’s drug problems, she moved in with her grandmother, who rescued her from the bad influences of the home she was born in, in North Dakota. They say she was the one who really raised him in Uvalde, a town with a population of mostly (78%) citizens of Latino descent, such as his family. In doing so, he left behind alleged problems of racism in white Dakota. But in Texas, he was never happy with his grandmother, though she made raising the grandson her only priority. That didn’t stop the old woman from becoming his first victim. He shot it before going to elementary school. He survived, but last night his health was critical.
Salvador Ramos worked the day shift at a local Wendy’s (fast food franchise). Five days a week, on shifts from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. or 5,000 hours. The restaurant manager. Adrian Mendes, confirmed the solitary nature of the author of the massacre. “Although he was seen as a quiet boy, who doesn’t talk much, he avoided contact with other employees. I didn’t really socialize,” he said. “He was just doing his job and cashing his check,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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